| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 It�s the Money, Honey -- 2 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- 3 Social Control, Policing, and Sex Work -- 4 The Whore Stigma and the Media -- 5 Whose Health? Whose Safety? -- 6 Sex and Politics: Responding to Sex Workers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z |
| Summary |
"Sex workers are often the "objects" of study for academics and policy makers. Theories about their lives and the policies that affect their work are usually developed without input from the sex workers themselves, as they are rarely seen as capable of analyzing the social and political world in which they work." "In this book, however, sex workers set the tone. Leslie Ann Jeffrey and Gayle MacDonald interview sex workers in three Maritime cities and those who work around them: police, health-care providers, community workers/advocates, members of neighbourhood associations, and politicians. The sex workers discuss such issues as violence and safety, health and risk, politics and policy, media influence, and public perception of the trade, portraying the best and the worst facets of their working lives and expressing sentiments refreshingly at odds with commonly held opinions."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-264) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Prostitutes -- New Brunswick -- Interviews
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Prostitutes -- Nova Scotia -- Interviews
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Prostitutes -- New Brunswick
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Prostitutes -- Nova Scotia
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Prostitution -- New Brunswick
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Prostitution -- Nova Scotia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Prostitutes
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Prostitution
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New Brunswick
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Nova Scotia
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Interviews
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
MacDonald, Gayle Michelle, 1957-
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| ISBN |
9780774855211 |
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0774855215 |
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